Countdown To "Physical Graffiti" Begins: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page Does Q&A, Expanded Album Streams Tomorrow

The wait for the latest volume of Led Zeppelin's remastered and expanded reissue series is almost over!

Tomorrow - Thursday, February 19 - Yahoo Live will stream the 40th Anniversary Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti Deluxe Edition Premiere. The complete, previously unreleased companion audio from the upcoming deluxe edition will be unveiled, followed by a live Q&A with legendary axeman and album producer Jimmy Page in front of a live audience at Olympic Studios in London, the same studio where portions of the album were originally recorded over 40 years ago. Fans worldwide will have the opportunity to share in this experience via the Yahoo Live video stream. Additionally, a few audience members in attendance will have the opportunity to ask Page a question. Fans watching online are encouraged to participate as well using the hashtag #ledzeplive.

The series of expanded and remastered reissues from Led Zeppelin is getting into the home stretch. Following the 2014 deluxe releases of the band’s first five albums, 1975’s Physical Graffiti – the band’s sixth of nine studio albums - will arrive in a variety of formats on February 24, 2015 – exactly forty years after the original album was first unveiled.

The hotly-anticipated Physical Graffiti was released almost two years after Led Zeppelin’s last album, Houses of the Holy, and was also the band’s most sprawling effort to date. The double-disc set, showing off every side of the band’s increasingly varied repertoire, featured material that dated as far back as 1970’s Led Zeppelin III. Also notable as the first release on Zeppelin’s own Swan Song label, the Grammy-winning Graffiti topped both the U.K. and U.S. album charts, and introduced such favorites as the lengthy, hypnotic orchestral track “Kashmir,” the acoustic guitar instrumental “Bron-Yr-Aur,” the Robert Johnson-inspired funky blues “Trampled Under Foot” and the epic “In My Time of Dying.” The Rolling Stones’ road manager and pianist Ian Stewart even dropped by for the jam session “Boogie with Stu.”

Physical Graffiti will be available in the following formats:

Double CD - Remastered album packaged in a replica of the original LP jacket.
Deluxe Edition (3CD) - Remastered album on two discs, plus a third disc of unreleased companion audio.
Double LP - Remastered album on 180-gram vinyl, packaged in a sleeve that replicates the LP's first pressing in exacting detail.
Deluxe Edition Vinyl (3LP) - Remastered album and unreleased companion audio on 180-gram vinyl.
Digital Download - Remastered album and companion audio will both be available in standard and high-definition formats.
Super Deluxe Boxed Set - This collection includes:

o Remastered double album on CD in vinyl replica sleeve.

o Companion audio on CD in card wallet featuring new alternate cover art.

o Remastered double album on 180-gram vinyl in a sleeve replicating first pressing.

o Companion audio on 180-gram vinyl in a sleeve with new alternate cover art.

o High-definition audio download card of all content at 96kHz/24 bit.

o Hardbound, 96 page book filled with rare and previously unseen photos and memorabilia

o High-quality print of the original album cover, the first 30,000 of which will be individually numbered.

As with the previous editions in this campaign, Physical Graffiti has been newly remastered by guitarist-producer Page and is accompanied by a disc of previously unreleased bonus tracks. Seven tracks have been added to the album including rough mixes of "In My Time of Dying" and "Houses of the Holy," plus an early mix of "Trampled Under Foot" called "Brandy and Coke." “Boogie with Stu” is heard in an alternate mix made at Sunset Sound, and “Driving Through Kashmir” is an rough orchestra mix of the famous track. “In the Light” is heard in embryonic form as “Everybody Makes It Through.”

All of the various editions of Physical Graffiti arrive next Tuesday, February 24, from Swan Song/Atlantic. You can pre-order below!

Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti (Swan Song SS 2-200 (U.S.), 1975 – reissued Atlantic/Swan Song, 2015)

2-CD Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
3-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
2-LP Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
3-LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

CD 1

Custard Pie
The Rover
In My Time of Dying
Houses of the Holy
Trampled Under Foot
Kashmir

CD 2

In the Light
Bron-Yr-Aur
Down by the Seaside
Ten Years Gone
Night Flight
The Wanton Song
Boogie with Stu
Black Country Woman
Sick Again

Companion Audio CD:

Brandy & Coke (Trampled Under Foot - Initial Rough Mix)
Sick Again (Early Version)
In My Time Of Dying (Initial Rough Mix)
Houses Of The Holy (Rough Mix With Overdubs)
Everybody Makes It Through"(In The Light - Early Version/In Transit)
Boogie with Stu (Sunset Sound Mix)
Driving Through Kashmir (Rough Orchestra Mix)

All tracks on Companion Audio CD are previously unreleased.

Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.